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strikesthrough) wrote2023-04-02 12:19 pm
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Victor's canon world is ostensibly like the earth and America we know; same level of technology, politics, world powers, and so forth. The only difference is that it also contains ExtraOrdinaries/EOs, who are people who have undergone some kind of near-death experience (NDE) and gain some kind of superpower.
It's Schwab's version of X-Men, basically.
Victor has gone through the events of Vicious and Vengeful, followed by roughly a year and a half spent in the Mask or Menace universe, including an in-game AU event which Victor experienced as a seven year period where he both lived as a skilled neuroscientist, then ultimately participated as a metahuman resistance leader, which he retains the memories of.
And now, he's in Thedas.
he's a prick.
content warning: self-harm, manipulation, death, resurrection, religious extremism, childhood abuse, substance abuse/overuse, suicidal themes, physical and psychological torture, animal injury/death¹, and sexual assault via mind/will-control², medical experimentation, imprisonment, fascist authoritarian states, brain implants, discrimination themes, etc.
VICIOUS / VENGEFUL
• Victor attends university as a pre-med student and meets Eli Cardale.
• Eli suggests studying ExtraOridinaries and while Victor makes the first attempt, it fails.
• Their next hypothesis is the NDA additionally needs a huge amount of adrenaline, fear, or an extreme will to live in order to successfully create an EO.
• For Eli's turn, they succeed and Eli returned as an EO with full regeneration powers.
• Victor asks Angie (an engineering student, Victor's friend, Eli's girlfriend) to help him try again.
• Angie has access to devices that send large electrical charges through objects in a controlled environment, which Victor convinces her to use on him by steadily dialling the amount of electricity up until he blacks out.
• When Victor wakes up, he's also become an EO with the ability to control pain in himself and other people, but as he's unable to understand or control his powers yet.
• Victor accidentally overloads Angie with pain, killing her in the process.
• When Victor and Eli next meet, they argue about Angie and the status of EOs in general. Their fight turns violent, and Eli shoots Victor. When Victor blacks out from bloodloss, he's arrested.
• Victor is incarcerated for ten years where he plots his revenge against Eli.
• Victor spends five years in solitary confinement and the following five years in general subtly practising and honing the use of his abilities on other inmates.
• He befriends his cellmate, a hacker innate named Mitch, and they orchestrate their escape.
• Newly freed and on the run, Mitch and Victor encounter and rescue a 12-year-old EO while driving who has been shot named Sydney; she can bring living things back from the dead.
• After tracking down and luring Eli into a fight, Victor baits Eli into killing him in front of the police, which leads to Eli's arrest and containment in an EO facility.
• Sydney then uses her powers to revive Victor two days later.
• While Sydney's resurrection abilities bring Victor back, he hasn't come back entirely the same--he now experiences being overloaded with pain and inconsistent control of his abilities. Eventually, the build up of energy amasses so much that it kills Victor... temporarily.
• When Victor wakes up, his head is clear again and his control of his powers have returned, but these death episodes are happening more often (approximately once every two months) and the length of time before his revival is steadily increasing. Victor's goal is to find a solution to this problem and fix himself.
• When Victor and Eli meet next they fight, but Victor has gained access to an EO-nullifying serum that he uses on Eli.
• Sydney shoots Eli while his regeneration powers are inactive, killing him.
• Victor steals six remaining vials and leaves the city solo.
MASK OR MENACE / CNC2020
• After the events in Vengeful, Victor is snatched into an another dimension and wakes up in a government facility, injected with nanites, and welcomed as an imPort hero.
• There is no way back that the locals know of, and the nanites grant Victor some additional powers alongside his pre-existing abilities: healing and emotional intensification.
• Five minutes into his arrival, Victor wakes to Eli trying to kill him.
• Eli and Victor immediately fight and test their new abilities on each other--Eli using his forced tranquillity ability to make Victor placid, and Victor using his emotional intensification to make Eli feel more emotion than he's ever felt in his life.
• They hit a stalemate and opt into a truce with the shared goal of finding a way to make Eli human so he can die.
• Victor doesn't tell Eli he already has six samples of the EO-nullification serum.
• Victor takes the opportunity the new world to close the door on his old life.
• Superhero-scale events take place in imPort cities that he sometimes, either begrudgingly or tangentially, gets involved in, but overall he's a fairly minimal presence as he works as a doctor and medical researcher, searching for a more effective solution to his death-cycle problem.
• After the conclusion of an event that threatened to destroy both the MoM world and the multiverse at large, weak spots appear in time and space, allowing for an insight into what could have been, ushering the in-game AU event Cape and Cowl 2020--a dark dystopian version of Earth where resistant metahumans were rounded up by a fascist government.
• The event opens as the metahumans stage mass rebellion.
• In this AU setting, CnC2020 Victor spent 7 years in this universe, establishing himself as a highly respected name in the field of neuroscience and medicine due to his nerve controlling and healing abilities before the metahuman crackdown.
• Victor vehemently, then violently, resisted registration, and after two years of resisting was imprisoned by the government.
• Victor was implanted with a chip to contain and control his powers and subjected to a range of experiments in an attempt to find ways to replicate his nerve-control abilities.
• For the next five years, Victor gathered information and formed a carefully curated network to set the pieces in motion for a mass meta breakout at his facility.
• After the breakout, Victor operated as an open enemy to the state, participating in grand acts of terrorism and sabotage and staging large-scale extraction missions for especially powerful metahumans in maximum security. He also had a massive air-ship fortress, the Samodiva. It was very Fox-verse X-Men.
• When the CnC2020 concluded the MoM timeline resumed and anyone who was CnC2020 AU'd during the event returned. Some retained their CnC2020 memories and experiences, including Victor.
• Victor, then falls through a Rift...